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customers (e.g. Efficient Consumer Response initiatives).The industry has only recently realized that current rebate practices … should be reconsidered and that rebate systems require a complete overhaul. Most importantly, rebate systems should be linked … to retail performance; a producer should only offer a rebate when a retailer delivers a specific service in return (e …
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This paper briefly describes the electric industry, its residential markets, industry structure and current trends. Its purpose is to provide Weatherization grants managers with the background necessary to assess their leveraging opportunities in an industry that is experiencing sweeping...
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The US Electric Utility Demand-Side Management report presents comprehensive information on electric power industry demand-side management (DSM) activities in the US at the national, regional, and utility levels. The objective of the publication is to provide industry decision makers, government...
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Programs in Perspective is the Bonneville Power Administration's public involvement process (PIP) for engaging customers and other stakeholders in a regional dialog to set strategic direction and broad program plans for BPA effort. This planning leads into a biennial rate setting cycle and...
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The only way resources can be efficiently allocated in our market system is if prices of resources, goods, and services properly reflect their true value to society. However, because of (a) imperfections in the pricing mechanisms that currently influence private-sector decision making; (b) the...
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centralized system operations and regulated rates guaranteeing long-run cost recovery, to decentralized investment and operational …
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The energy industry generally and petroleum and natural gas operations in particular are frequently reacting to a variety of unsettling forces. Falling oil prices, economic upswings, currency devaluations, increasingly rigorous environmental quality standards, deregulation of electricity...
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the determinants of telecommunications investments and presents two possible solutions to the investment problem. The …
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methodology is illustrated with the example of market-penetration forecasting of new district heating and cooling (DHC) systems in …
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This book makes a contribution to the formulation and implementation of production cost models for the modelling of liberalized electricity markets by addressing issues associated with the level of detail in the representation of the underlying power system, the accuracy of the results and the...
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